Colloquia - Spring 1999

Title: IPR Colloquium (Co-sponsored with the Department of Political Science)Description: "School Choice: The Role of Information and the Importance of the Marginal Consumer." Speaker is Mark Schneider, Chair, Department of Political Science, SUNY-Stony Brook.

Title: IPR Colloquium (Co-sponsored with the Department of Political Science)Description: "Politicians Don't Pander: Political Leadership, Media Coverage, and Public Opinion." Speaker is Lawrence Jacobs, Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota.

Title: IPR ColloquiumDescription: "Banking on the Community: A Public/Private Strategy for Rebuilding Local Economies." Speakers are John L. McKnight, IPR-Communication Studies and John P. Kretzmann, IPR Research Associate, Co-directors, ABCD Institute.

Title: IPR ColloquiumDescription: "From Welfare to Workfare: Bringing Reciprocity Back Into Welfare Policy?" Speaker is Marcus Manz, Visiting Scholar, Department of Political Science, and Department of Political Science, University of Geneva, Switzerland.

Title: IPR ColloquiumDescription: "Rethinking Leadership in Urban Elementary Schools: Implications of a Distributed Perspective." Speakers are James Spillane, IPR Education and Social Policy; John Diamond, Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Education and Social Policy; and Richard Halverson, Graduate Student, Learning Sciences.